Biennale in Artistic Research in Architecture in the Great Exhibition Hall at KADK – The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation – from March 23rd to May 7th 2017.

What do architects, artists, and designers actually do? What inspires them? How do they make the leaps of imagination they need to break new ground? Where do they find their ideas? How do they develop, test and share them with each other? How do they know when something’s going right?

Postcard as part of the exhibition “Scientific Autobiography”, displayed in the “ADAPT-r
Architecture Design and Art Practice Training-research” exhibition at Ambika P3, University of Westminster, London. 26 November – 18 December 2016.

Object shown at the ADAPT-r conference Making Research│Researching Making in Aarhus sept. 2015.

The box creates a boundary for the boundless and infinite without creating an object with a finite form. The object consists of a rhizome root system that respects no borders. It does not grow from the bottom up, but horizontally from the centre out and is reshaped by wind and weather. It is consisting of lines – not between points, but between crosses – that connects to each other in all directions. It has no clear demarcation, no beginning and no end. Everything is connected in a way that makes everything lead to everything and all forms of movement affect each other. The rhizome operates beneath the surface, while it challenges the principles and systems above ground level. The long and branched rhizomes of the root system retain their survivability, even in tiny pieces. It does not keep to specific locations but exceeds social divisions and grows in allotment gardens, castle gardens, road verges, public parks and villa gardens. The rhizome root system belongs to the Nettle, which follows people and has always done so. As long as there is nitrate in the ground, it is moving across borders of regions and countries. Time or physical laws do not limit the Nettle. It moves back in history and forward in time – into the future.

Stadium NOWHERE unfolds the history of the Plečnik Stadium - a place unable to adapt to new demands. It´s a collaborative creation of a situation in the shape of seven nomadic structures, visualized, built and carried into the city to interact with public and the static buildings of Jože Plečnik.

The project produces a response no one has asked for to learn about society and its mechanisms. The current dispute around the redevelopment of the Stadium asks general questions about collective behaviour, rationales and ideals of society. Earlier, political systems and strong ideologies made dialogue difficult because of polarization and the determinate solutions embedded in these ideologies. With today’s complex reality a dialogue that comes before political decisions is fundamental.

Stadium NOWHERE is an architectural research by Danish architect Gitte Juul in collaboration with architectural students from the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Architecture.

Stadium NOWHERE is a collaborative creation of a situation – “Now and Here”, which deals with a place unable to adapt to new demands. In the shape of seven nomadic structures, the history of the Plečnik Stadium is unfolded, visualized, built and carried by architectural students from The Faculty of Architecture in Ljubljana into the city to engage with public and the static buildings of Jože Plečnik . Stadium NOWHERE

I have received a 10 month fellowship within the EU research project Adapt-r, which means Architecture, Design and Art Practice Training research.
Practice Research Symposia are crucial to the organisation of ADAPT-r and here I am presenting at the PRS in Barcelona.